jouet

/\ʒwɛ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,183

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

jouet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet qui sert à amuser les enfants. Pronounced \ʒwɛ\. It ranks #9,183 in French word frequency. Often confused with jour and just.

Key facts for jouet
PropertyValue
Headwordjouet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒwɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,183
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jouet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jouet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,183 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for jouet, with forms such as "jjouet", "joeut", and "jouett". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jour", "just", "joug", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jouet, spelled J-O-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objet qui sert à amuser les enfants.
  2. 2
    Objet à fonction érotique destiné à provoquer le plaisir.
  3. 3
    Objet qui sert à amuser les animaux domestiques.
  4. 4
    De manière plus général, objet que l’on manipule sans règle imposée, pour le seul plaisir, par opposition à un jeu qui fait lui intervenir des règles.
  5. 5
    Celui, celle dont on se joue ou une chose dont on s’amuse ou dont on semble s’amuser.
  6. 6
    Plaque en métal que l’on fixe sur les côtés du sep de drisse de manière à éviter les frottements dues au poulies.
  7. 7
    Petite chaîne que l’on accroche à la brisure du canon qui forme l’embouchure dans le mors d’un cheval.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjouet,joeut,jouett,juoet,ojuet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jouet

Misspelling Variants of "jouet"

jjouet6joeut5jouett6juoet5ojuet5
Misspelling Variants of "jouet"

Frequency rank: #9,183 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jouet"?
"jouet" is spelled J-O-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒwɛ\.
What does "jouet" mean?
As a noun, "jouet" means: Objet qui sert à amuser les enfants.
What words are commonly confused with "jouet"?
"jouet" is commonly confused with "jour", "just", "joug". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jouet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jouet" is \ʒwɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jouet" come from?
"jouet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.